Sweet Mud

Sweet Mud Hebrew is a 2006 Israeli satirical drama film written and directed by Dror Shaul. The semiautobiographical film was shot on the kibbutzim of Ruhama and Nir Eliyahu, and draws on Shauls memories of growing up on a kibbutz with his mentally unstable and widowed mother.

Sweet Mud received generally favorable reviews from critics. At Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 82, based onreviews and an average rating of 710. The Toronto Star called it an appealing comingofage tale that takes on the difficult issues of mental illness and conformity, providing two contrasting views of kibbutz life on one hand, an idyllic pastoral life where the fruits of labour and a strong sense of community are shared by all, and on the other, a place of rigid rules, where children sleep in segregated quarters away from their parents, baby bottles are dispensed in a regimented maternity wardtype system and where disapproval of individual idiosyncrasies can easily become a communal decision that isolates and ostracizes.The film received four 2006 Ophir Awards from the Israeli Academy of Film and Television Best Film, Best Music, Best Production Design, Best Sound and six other nominations Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Editing. It also won the World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was Israels official submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2007 Academy Awards. ........

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